Garage Give-Away

Last weekend, even though the weather was terrible, we decided to go garage sale-ing. We had one sale that we knew about from the paper, and so, we headed out. It was a good 25 minutes from home, and we were prepared. Snacks for the kids, perhaps a movie...who knew what we would find!

When we got there, we learned that this lady who was having the garage sale was widowed about 2 yrs. ago, and their house was actually an old church. Her and her late husband had lived there for 24 yrs., and were working on fixing it up. Well, let me tell you....they had a LOT of work to do... Anyhow, the property is just too much for her to take care of now, so she had sold it. I found a very fun fruit box and 2 other little boxes with really old and rusty handles in the basement, which I gave her $5 for.

Just before we drove away, I saw a bunch of piles of stuff (aka "junk") in the back bushes. I convinced my friend, Suzanne, to go and ask if we would be able to take a look through there to see if there was anything else that we could buy. This lady told us how her husband, for 24 yrs., would bring home stuff, and make piles of it. She told him "No more!", but still, he continued to bring it home. Well, let me tell you friends, we hit the mother-lode!! We probably spent about 1 1/2 hrs. going through some of the piles. And here is what we found....

This was just the 'metal pile'....there were wood piles and other piles as well!

There was an old hay wagon in the middle of the bushes also.  Unfortunately, the new owners wanted this, so we couldn't claim it.  It would've make a great play structure for the girls!  Apparently, this wagon was brought from the family farm in Mundare.  Cool, eh?

 This gentleman also made his own wine out in the bushes, so there were a lot of wine jugs and other things which we couldn't figure out what they were.  A few more windows to add to my collection...

After about an hour and a half, as our piles started getting bigger and bigger, I figured I'd better call Art to come and pick up all these goodies in the truck.  Thankfully, he was headed home from the city, so he was able to pop in and load up.  Abut that time, though, we had a HUGE thunderstorm and terrential downpour, so Suzanne and I were looking like drowned rats by the time we got into the van to go home!  I'll post some pictures tomorrow of all our finds....